Large pine tree struck by lightening a few months back. Is it dead?

More than likely done, check your homeowner's policy, normally there is a limit of $500 a tree for lightning

yes once it goes brown it’s already dead.
happens to a big pine in my yard every few years, it sucks.

and nothing makes a mess when it falls worse than a big pine

probably
trees die from the top down....
look at the top and branches close to it...
if brown and lower ones still done green ...it will soon all be brown...:(

Remove it sooner rather than later. The longer you wait the harder to remove.

Thanks for the feedback. Just looking for confirmation. Yes the bark is split all the way to the ground. Brown leaves started at the top and it’s spread to well over half the pine needles.

The way most lilies are written, the cost of tree removal, plus the cost of the tree falls into the total cost for tree removal, so even with the deductible on most policies, the $500 gets paid out

OP, have it felled now before it is dead all the way. Reason, felling a tree that is dead after a long time will double the cost to remove it. Trees like that can kill you very fast when felling. It gets hard to control dropping them.

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I did lose a couple of 100 year old oaks out front



I would have cried. Anything that can be done to help these survive in a field?

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Don't do old superstitious stuff like hang horse shoes and other pieces of iron in the forks and on the limbs.

Pretty sure these trees that got zapped all had great and double great grandkin doing that kinda thing way back. I know when I was young I could still see where the tree was growing around stuff hung 50 years earlier like a horse shoe and a piece of a wagon hitch. Granddad said the horse shoe was a good luck thing and the hitch was some luck with livestock intent. He had his own superstitions but didn't believe in the old ways.

I can't fuss too much though, about 35 years ago when the old gate fell apart, the latch pin about 3' long with the 6" ring on one end, got bent and was left laying in the dirt for years. I hung it in the fork of a crepe myrtle "temporarily" so I could continue the yard stuff I was doing. Yep, it's still in the now grown together fork, ring on one side of tree and end of pin on the other.

Yep.